Creating a New Application

To create a new application:

• either in the repository, right-click Applications and click 

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• or, at the end of open the 

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  , click the New Application card; see Application, below.
  Click the last card, which is the New Application card:
  

When you create a new application in the repository, PhixFlow automatically creates a menu item for it. You can find the menu in the repository → Menus branch. The menu item has the application name with the _Menu suffix. When you add the first option to the menu, it is automatically displayed on the right of the top menu bar; see Menu.

Application Properties

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Basic Settings

Style Settings

In this section, set the default appearance of grid views for the application. You can set:

• Grid Header Style
• Grid Header Button Style
• Grid Header Icon Style
• Grid Header Drop-down Button Style
• Grid header Drop-down Pane Style
• Grid Paging Style
• Grid Row Style
• Grid Column Header Style
• Row Selection Style

The styles you select override any styles set in System Configuration. You can override these defaults for individual grids using the style settings in the Stream View properties.

To specify a style, select it from the drop-down list or click the icons to:

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  : shows the styles available for this application in the repository.

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  : create a new style.

Menus

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid lists the menus that have stream actions that can be applied for this application. If there are several menus, listed PhixFlow uses the selected (ticked) menu as the menu bar for the application.

You can specify that PhixFlow uses a different menu for desktop and mobile devices. In the grid, right-click a menu to display the context menu and select:

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PhixFlow displays the mobile or desktop icon next to the application's name. Using that context menu the user can also load the Application with selected menu. All options available in the context menu are:

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  : add another menu to the list

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  : delete the menu from this application.

Access Permissions

Packages

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of packages that contain this application. To add an application to the list:

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    to list all the packages in the repository.
2. Drag packages into this list. 

To remove a package from the list, use the

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 in the toolbar.

Application Menu and Context Menus

The Application Menu

In both 

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, if your PhixFlow URL does not specify an application, the 

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 opens automatically when you log into PhixFlow. The 

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lists all the applications available in the current PhixFlow instance.

You can open the 

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at any time.

• Either click on the PhixFlow logo and name  , in the top left of the PhixFlow screen.
• Or, if your application has been configured to have no menu bar, click the PhixFlow logo  in the bottom right of the PhixFlow screen.

The applications are shown in cards, for example:

Application Card Context Menu

Each application card also has a context menu. To open the application card context menu:

• either right-click anywhere in the card
• or hover your mouse pointer over the card to display its 3-dot context menu icon in the top right.
  Click the 3-dot icon   icon.

Repository Application Context Menu

Applications also have different context menu available from the repository. To open the repository application context menu, right-click the name of an application.

Context Menu Options